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Comey Writing Book About Career, Agent Says All Major Publishing Houses Interested
Former FBI Director James Comey is writing a book about his career in public service, including his dramatic and short tenure in the Trump administration, and all major publishing houses have expressed interest, his literary agent said.
Comey has been meeting with editors and publishers in New York in recent days and is being represented by literary agency Javelin partners Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer, the New York Times reports. It will not be a “tell-all memoir,” the report says, but it will delve into his role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation and his conversations with President Donald Trump regarding the Russian election interference probe:
http://freebeacon.com/politics/comey-writing-book-about-career-agent-says-all-major-publishing-houses-interested/
Caitlyn Jenner considering run for Senate
Reality TV star and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner is considering running for the Senate.
Jenner, a Republican, told radio host John Catsimatidis she “would look for a senatorial run.”
“I like the political side of it,” she said in an interview that aired Sunday. “The political side of it has always been very intriguing to me. Over the next six months or so, I gotta find out where I can do a better job. Can I do a better job from the outside? Kind of working the perimeter of the political scene, being open to talking to anybody? Or are you better from the inside, and we are in the process of determining that.”
Jenner has been vocal in recent months about the Republican Party’s stance on LGBT issues.
She warned President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions in February in a video posted via Twitter she would see them in court in response to his administration’s decision to repeal guidelines on public school bathrooms for transgender students.
On Thursday she said during an appearance on “The View” she had a meeting with Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to discuss LGBT issues worldwide.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/caitlyn-jenner-considering-run-for-senate/article/2628784
Did Facebook Just Agree to Enforce Blasphemy Laws?
Doublespeak is language that deliberately distorts or even reverses the meaning of words. For example, when critics of radical Islam expose this extremism for what is it, Islamists and their “progressive” enablers call them “Islamophobes;” when those who call themselves “social justice warriors” campaigning for tolerance exhibit just the opposite (i.e., intolerance) by shutting down any conversation with which they don’t agree; when others force their religious beliefs (i.e., blasphemy laws) upon others in the name of freedom of religion (as in Canada’s new motion against criticism of Islam); or when perpetrators of crimes frame themselves as victims.
Doublespeak often leads to doublethink, as George Orwell writes in his seminal novel Nineteen Eight-Four: “To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.” In the novel, people explicitly learn doublethink due to peer pressure and a desire to fit in or gain status with in the “Party.”
With these definitions in mind, Clarion Project launches a week-long expose of some of the worst offenders:
A high-level Facebook executive met with the interior minister in Pakistan last week to discuss Pakistan’s demand that the social media platform remove what the Islamist country deems “blasphemous content.”
The fact the meeting took place at all speaks volumes about Facebook’s intent.
First, the tete-a-tete, the first-ever discussion on the issue between a senior Facebook exec and the Pakistani government, comes on the heels of the decision by a Pakistani “counter-terrorism” court to sentence a 30-year-old man to death for making “blasphemous” comments on Facebook.
Such an outrageous verdict should have caused any company serious about human rights to refuse to engage with such a regime. Even the fact that there exists such a law such a law that violates the basic — and what should be universal — right to freedom of speech should be reason to protest.
Yet apparently, business is business for Facebook.
https://clarionproject.org/facebook-just-agree-enforce-blasphemy-laws/
Linda Sarsour: Jihad Against Trump Is ‘Patriotism’
Doublespeak is language that deliberately distorts or even reverses the meaning of words. For example, when critics of radical Islam expose this extremism for what is it, their critics call them “Islamophobes;” when those who call themselves “social justice warriors” campaigning for tolerance exhibit just the opposite (i.e., intolerance) by shutting down any conversation with which they don’t agree; when others force their religious beliefs (i.e., blasphemy laws) upon others in the name of religion (as in Canada’s new motion against criticism of Islam); or when perpetrators of crimes frame themselves as victims.
Doublespeak often leads to doublethink, as George Orwell writes in his seminal novel Nineteen Eight-Four, “To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.” In the novel, people explicitly learn doublethink due to peer pressure and a desire to fit in or gain status with in the “Party.”
With these definitions in mind, Clarion Project launches a week-long expose of some of the worst offenders:
Speaking at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) conference in Chicago over the weekend, Islamist activist Linda Sarsour provoked outrage when she called on the Muslim community to wage “jihad” against U.S. President Donald Trump.
In a breathtaking display of doublespeak, she billed her speech as a talk about patriotism. Addressing immigrants and children of immigrants, Sarsour said, “Patriotism in your home country is different than patriotism in these United States of America. In this country, in the land of freedom of speech, in the land of democracy, dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
https://clarionproject.org/doublespeak/
NOTE: Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, weighs in with astonishingly profound advice on the North Korean nuclear crisis.
North Korea is an Information Problem Disguised as a Military Problem
Posted July 9th, 2017 @ 10:18am in #north korea
In the year 2017, most of our national problems are information problems. And by that I mean having the right information would allow us to solve most problems.
Consider the nuclear threat from North Korea. That’s an information problem disguised as a military problem.
I hope that statement seems wrong to you, so you will be extra-impressed when I change your mind in the next hundred seconds.
If the U.S. government tries to strongarm China to control North Korea’s nuclear program, that might cause more problems than it solves. No one likes a government-to-government confrontation of that type. China would have to push back. It could get ugly fast.
But imagine what would happen if American consumers knew which American companies were doing the most business with China.
And imagine American consumers understanding that China can turn off the economy of North Korea, like a switch, any time it wants, thus controlling North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
Now connect the dots.
If you treat the North Korean nuclear threat as a military problem, it becomes one. If you treat it as an information problem, with an economic variable, it becomes that instead.
I’m in favor of my government trying to negotiate an agreement with China, Russia, and North Korea. But if our leaders can’t get it done, I ask the government to get out of the way. Citizens can take care of this one directly.
All we need is some information.
NorseRadish: Please recall that, along with a bare few others [nods to yucki and Richard], I have been screaming for a boycott of Chinese goods. Government or public, I care not. Just hit the Chicoms in their hip pocket and they’ll fold faster than a greenhorn with a busted flush.
This is one of the most cogent appeals for a citizen-based approach to foreign policy that I’ve ever seen.
Sadly, if anyone thinks that Walmart shoppers will stop chugging Uncle Mao’s knock-off economic Kool-Aid in order to prevent America from being nuked, then I’ve got some Florida coast property to sell you.
Some years ago, a friend of mine who knew as much about Islam as I did at the time and was at least as repulsed by it and its influence announced that she and her family were going to a halal Indian restaurant because they just really liked the place.
That is when i learned that the individual will never in large enough numbers give up the most simple pleasure to accomplish a geopolitical goal.
Scott Adams, who I much admire, is ludicrously out of the park on this one. People will never stop buying from China when they can get better faster and WAY CHEAPER cool stuff that way.
Need a USB C cable? Try $25.00 for a short one that doesn’t work all the time cause the connectors are slightly too small from the US, or awesome ones from China that are 2 meters and $4.25 including shipping.
So, what was that Scott was saying?
Several days ago Norse Radish, Yucki and I were talking about this same general idea but with the government cutting off the US imports not the individuals. As I said then this would work but I don’t think there is time enough for the pressure to be felt before China orders North Korea to do something that forces us to use the military to stop North Korea.
As evidence of this look at the picture of the last “North Korean” missile and the mobile launcher it was fired from. This was a solid fuel missile when the previous long range missiles were liquid fueled, this one was on a dedicated missile transport that was said to have been sold to be a timber transport when and ordinary flat bed truck would be better to transport the timber. Also the nose cone of the missile had a shroud that is used to streamline the nose of a missile with multiple re-entry vehicles each with a separate bomb.
The only way to interrupt these things is that China is saying that they aren’t going to stop North Korea and that we were to back off. If we back off or pay the blackmail that has been paid since the Clinton administration China will feel safe to move against its neighbors. If we do nothing China and Korea will do something to make us react. We either fight now or we wait a few years (probably less then 5) and the causalities then will be 10 times worse if not one or two orders of magnitude worse.
Very few of the talking heads on TV are willing to say this because they are afraid of being accused of being war mongers.
FYI: Just to bust the bubble of those saying we will never fight China because we are both tied too close together with our foreign trade do any of you know who the largest foreign customer of Britain was before WWI and who was the largest foreign customer of Germany? If you guessed Germany for the first and Britain for the second you are right. Although I think China will be willing to left Kim and his regime go under and do nothing as long as the South Korean Army or the Us Army doesn’t go all the way to the Chinese border. They want us tied up in Korea while they move elsewhere.
“As I said then this would work but I don’t think there is time enough for the pressure to be felt before China orders North Korea to do something that forces us to use the military to stop North Korea.”
While Red China certainly is capable of catalyzing some sort of conflict between the US and North Korea, I remain obliged to question the value of such a move.
Yes, it would be a great smokescreen for some sort of deployment in Pakistan, the Arabian Peninsula, or East Africa. Nevertheless, the ChiComs have been stepping on a lot of toes lately (e.g., appropriating islands in South China Sea, damming major Asian rivers, threatening Taiwan, etc.).
Plus, I continue to maintain that military intervention on the Korean Peninsula will likely (as you also recognize) result in some sort of pseudo-reunification. Regardless of however far from the Yalu River Western forces might halt, this is an outcome that’s totally contrary to Beijing’s long-term agenda.
“Also the nose cone of the missile had a shroud that is used to streamline the nose of a missile with multiple re-entry vehicles each with a separate bomb.”
One of my first questions is: How much more advanced was this recent missile design from North Korea’s previous state-of-the-art for its solid fuel rockets? Parallel development of liquid and solid-fueled missiles isn’t out of the question but it sure as hell is an expensive hobby.
Rest assured that the dedicated carrier was almost as problematic. As in, “timber transport”, my skeptical gweilo ass. That was the most overpriced, over-engineered lumber truck I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
Equally curious was your mention of the nose cone shroud. MIRV (Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle) platforms are amongst the most tricky payloads imaginable. Just as demanding is device miniaturization, something that pushes every last engineering boundary of nuclear weapons development.
Personally, I’d be more tempted to bet that the MIRV-style nose cone shroud was there for propaganda purposes. Constructing and integrating a fake shroud with the rest of the vehicle would be child’s play, yet create the appearance of having MIRV capability. This sort of bluff “deterrent” is exactly the sort of game North Korea has been playing for a long, long time.
Clinton aside, without Bush 2.0 and 0bama kicking this nuclear can down the political road for sixteen damn years, such a ploy would never have worked. Instead, this pair (or trio) of Ivy League poseurs have made it possible for the North Korean mouse to “roar”.
“If we do nothing, China and Korea will do something to make us react.”
Again, the question is, “Can they afford to?” Buying time by playing possum makes a lot more sense for both parties but especially so for North Korea. Even if the Norks have successfully miniaturized their devices and mounted them on their rockets (MIRVed or not), they would still like some extra time to build and test more nuclear bombs.
The only one who benefits from rushing into a confrontation over this is America, with a feebly protesting South Korea hiding behind our skirts.
“Very few of the talking heads on TV are willing to say this because they are afraid of being accused of being war mongers.”
It is unsurprisingly ironic that those who continue to encourage any delays in tackling this Asian tar baby will turn out to be the real “war mongers”. Through their reluctance in disingenuous posturing as anti-war advocates, it is they who will (as we have long agreed) up the butcher’s bill by something like an order of magnitude.
“Although I think China will be willing to let Kim and his regime go under and do nothing as long as the South Korean Army or the US Army doesn’t go all the way to the Chinese border. They want us tied up in Korea while they move elsewhere.”
Here is where I must respectfully disagree. At the very least, Beijing is not going to be fond of having its Communist doctrine hung out to dry while Red China’s population watches Western forces roll up North Korea’s sidewalks. That alone would be untenable.
And again, having any further expansion of South Korean territory towards the Yalu River border—as in creating much closer observation posts and forward operating (THAAD) bases—is something that just isn’t on the menu for Communist China.
Other than those niggling details, I could not agree with you more and sincerely appreciate your detailed reply.
Now, if only yucki would join the party.
I did, sorta – before reading this thread:
https://vladtepesblog.com/2017/07/16/clintons-bag-another-one-erdogan-goes-full-pig-napoleon-links-1-july-16-2017/comment-page-1/#comment-368500
So glad to see you join the fray, dolink!
Ivy League poseurs
Again, disparaging an entire universe of people, places, and things you do not know.
You’re better than that, Mr. Radish.
“You’re better than that, Mr. Radish.”
Ummmmm … nope. The eastern liberal educational establishment has churned out some of the most predatory and morally compromised specimens of America’s financial aristocracy. Think Bush 2.0 and 0bama,
Think some of your admirers on this very blog!
“So, what was that Scott was saying?”
In case you missed it, Adams was brilliantly elucidating about an information problem that keeps getting mistaken for a military problem. His “Information Problem Disguised as a Military Problem” meme is totally superb. If my IQ were just slightly lower, I would cave in and envy his ability to summarize this issue so succinctly.
“People will never stop buying from China when they can get better faster and WAY CHEAPER cool stuff that way.”
Nonetheless, you have missed my own point entirely.
Take a look at America’s trade deficit with Red China:
As of 2013, the USA-China trade imbalance was $324 billion. By itself, Walmart was $49 billion, or a staggering 15% of the entire USA-China trade deficit (at that time).
Some estimates are that, between 2001 and 2013, around 400,000 American jobs (especially in the critical manufacturing sector that creates genuine wealth and drives the middle class) are a casualty of this imbalance.
What you have missed, Eeyore, is that even if you purchase a Chinese-made USB C cable, buy the damned thing from a small business instead of Walmart. Just starving out Walmart will help to cripple Communist China’s economy.
Personally, I refuse to shop at Walmart. My last big purchase there was a cooler chest and tent for 2003 Burning Man. Since then, I’ve bought a can of pet food and, on one other occasion, some shoelaces that I could not find anywhere else. On top of all of this, back in the early naughties, I ran an Excel spreadsheet of every last household purchase I made and Walmart was not very cost competitive.
Walmart’s sole virtue is that a customer can walk in and purchase shotgun shells, a widescreen television, five SDHC flash cards, and some charcoal briquets, all under the same roof. Anyone who has been to a major European hypermarket knows that Walmart is a crude approximation, at best.
American consumers are suicidally cost sensitive. One especial problem is that many people who patronize US Walmart stores were not born in America and, as a consequence, do not feel any patriotic duty to boycott such a predatory entity.
Finally, it is this inability of American consumers to make informed choices that almost forces government intervention over an issue that this nation’s citizens are far more qualified and capable of resolving. That’s the real heart-breaker.
You have a lot of good points there but I still think China is pushing for a war, one possible reason is that their economy is about to tank and they think a war will save them. Another is that this is about the only way they can think of thinning down their surplus male population. But the main one is they think that at the worst they can fight us to a negotiated peace because we don’t want to push them to a nuclear showdown. If the newly expansionist Chinese Empire is to expand they have to weaken the US and move us out of large areas in the Orient. They also have to weaken India but that is probably being done by Pakistan, these are the only two nations over there that can stand up to them in a slugging match.
Yes both South Korea and Japan can build nukes but the question is how fast. While I don’t agree with them some people who know the region are saying that given their history Japan will never build nukes. So the Chinese will have to worry about them but they probably think they can prevent South Korea from building nukes by a treaty when they negotiate to end the war. They want the entire South China Sea and the Islands that border it, they can’t get this without removing the US and destroying the alliance of the smaller nations.
Of course they may broach the idea that if we will let them take over Indonesia they will stop Kim. (I doubt they will do this but this is possible) this would allow them to expend some of their surplus young men and export others to a nation with a lot of women. It would also give them many bases bordering the South China Sea that could be used as a launch platform for future conquests. I doubt they would broach this but they might and their military is large enough that they could fight us in Korea and Indonisia at the same time knowing that our military is still weak from the Obama years.
Combine the above with the idea that they know it will take a year to minimum to rebuild our military (probably longer since Obama scrapped the military equipment rather then mothballing it.) and if they decide to negotiate a peace that gives us some benefits but removes us from Korea they might call this a victory.
Or I could be wrong.
Another possible scenario is they are counting on a civil war in the US and in Europe to prevent pull most of our military away from Korea and think that their shows of force will force us to negioate a new treaty more to China’s liking.
I forget to put this in the above answer, I think the missile was a Chinese missile not a North Korean missile. it was delivered on the transport it was fired from and it was telling us that they were backing North Korea and won’t do anything to stop Kim.
“…I think the missile was a Chinese missile not a North Korean missile.”
I very much agree. That is why I inquired about the Norks’ state-of-the-art with respect to solid fueled rockets.
I agree.
That makes three.
https://vladtepesblog.com/2017/07/16/clintons-bag-another-one-erdogan-goes-full-pig-napoleon-links-1-july-16-2017/comment-page-1/#comment-368505
– Thinking the same thing almost simultaneously –
China would be delighted to “sacrifice” the populations of both Koreas. No worry about refugees pouring over the border, the South in ruins. Lots of construction necessary, China will get rich again!
We’d become the Evil Empire of the World instantly. Western propaganda media would mate with Russian propaganda media like long-lost lovers. We’d be ruined.
That they would, I keep looking at the big picture but in this case you scenario makes more sense, ruining our reputation while the world is plunged into a war that stands a good chance of leaving Russia and China in control of real large chunks of it.
“China would be delighted to “sacrifice” the populations of both Koreas. No worry about refugees pouring over the border, the South in ruins. Lots of construction necessary, China will get rich again!
We’d become the Evil Empire of the World instantly. Western propaganda media would mate with Russian propaganda media like long-lost lovers. We’d be ruined.”
You, my dear yucki, are waaaay too cynical.
Unfortunately, you are damn close to the truth.
“You have a lot of good points there but I still think China is pushing for a war, one possible reason is that their economy is about to tank and they think a war will save them.”
Thank you. For the nonce, let’s please temporarily ignore whether, “a war will save them” (i.e., the ChiComs). Long ago, we both agreed that Red China’s ability to shed its massive gender imbalance is almost wholly dependent upon Beijing clamping some sort of meat grinder to the region’s political table.
“Another is that this is about the only way they can think of thinning down their surplus male population.”
At the risk of being repetitive, war or no war, please consider this:
All of those, catastrophically unattached, young Chinese males came from somewhere. Why were they even born, and for what purpose were they brought into this world?
Without wishing to sound condescending, these free-floating bits of cannon fodder are ambulatory retirement policies.
Due to Eeyore’s harsh limitation on a post’s link count, I will ask that you please search on, “Elderly care – coping with the 4:2:1 problem”. To explain, 4:2:1 = Four grandparents, two parents, and ONE GRANDCHILD who is the retirement plan for all six of his ancestors.
A search on, “Can China afford rapid aging?” will reveal the following quote:
The point being that any attempt by Beijing to kill off a substantial portion of China’s excess male population will have the effect of stripping away the “biological pensions” of that nation’s population.
Already, there are grumblings from China’s aging population that retirement equals poverty.
From: Global development — “China’s rocketing elderly population prompts a rethink on pensions”
Something tells me that there will be some serious unrest if the Politburo sets about killing off the elderly’s young retirement policies.
“Yes both South Korea and Japan can build nukes but the question is how fast. While I don’t agree with them some people who know the region are saying that given their history Japan will never build nukes. So the Chinese will have to worry about them but they probably think they can prevent South Korea from building nukes by a treaty when they negotiate to end the war.”
Neither do I agree that Japan will never build nuclear weapons. After decades of provocation by North Korea, I’d be very surprised if Tokyo didn’t have several “bombs in the basement” (per my earlier citation).
“They want the entire South China Sea and the Islands that border it, they can’t get this without removing the US and destroying the alliance of the smaller nations.
How China is going to do this without starting a war that they cannot possibly win is beyond me. I certainly do not think that they will be able to puff a renewed Korean conflict up to where the US military is going to voluntarily abandon Asian waters.
“Of course they may broach the idea that if we will let them take over Indonesia they will stop Kim. (I doubt they will do this but this is possible) this would allow them to expend some of their surplus young men and export others to a nation with a lot of women.”
An interesting strategy but one which I doubt the world’s largest Muslim population has any desire to see happen. Especially not after seeing China’s ongoing treatment of their Uighurs in Xinjiang.
“Combine the above with the idea that they know it will take a year to minimum to rebuild our military…”
Which beggars the question of whether China (or North Korea) will be ready for war in less than a year.
“…if they decide to negotiate a peace that gives us some benefits but removes us from Korea they might call this a victory.”
America most likely will not fully withdraw from South Korea until they have their own nuclear weapons. At least, that is what I would expect of Trump. If Trump is out after only one term, then all bets are off. Especially if another spineless Democrat replaces him.
Even in highly developed Japan, the elderly are going hungry:
Japan’s elderly turn to life of crime to ease cost of living
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/27/japans-elderly-turn-to-life-of-crime-to-ease-cost-of-living.html
Heroic Chinese, having sacrificed their only child for the sake of the Middle Kingdom, will do the right thing: Curl up and die.
Those who don’t – well, they can be encouraged to do so.
“Heroic Chinese, having sacrificed their only child for the sake of the Middle Kingdom, will do the right thing: Curl up and die.”
Those days are coming to an end. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 5,335 schoolchildren. Specifically due to shoddily constructed school buildings.
The Chinese government magnanimously permitted bereaved parents to have another child. Of course, by then, most of them had been sterilized to prevent any further unwanted pregnancies.
People are leaving the Communist party in droves. Since 2004 more than 200 million people have quit the Communist Party. From: 225m reasons for China’s leaders to worry
Scratch the surface, however, and China’s middle class is far from content (see our special report in this issue). Its members are prosperous, but they feel insecure. They worry about who will look after them when they grow old; most couples have only one child, and the public safety-net is rudimentary. They fret that, if they fall ill, hospital bills may wipe out their wealth. If they own a home, as 80% of them do, they fear losing it; property rights in China can be overturned at the whim of a greedy official. They worry about their savings, too; banks offer derisory interest rates and alternative investments are regulated badly or not at all. No Ponzi scheme in history ensnared more investors than the one that collapsed in China in January.
Many middle-class Chinese are also angry. Plenty scoff when they are force-fed Marxism. Even more rage about corruption, which blights every industry and activity, and about nepotism, which rewards connections over talent and hard work. Nearly all fume about pollution, which clogs their lungs, shortens their lives and harms their children. They cannot help noticing that some polluters with important friends foul the air, soil and water with impunity.
And some feel frustrated. China has well over 2m non-governmental organisations. Many of those working for them are middle-class people trying to make their society better, independently of the party. Some are agitating for a cleaner environment, for fairer treatment of workers, or for an end to discrimination against women, or gay people, or migrants. None of these groups openly challenges the party’s monopoly of power, but they often object to the way it wields it.
Union Demands Teachers Undergo Compulsory ‘Gender Diversity’ Training (breitbart, Jul 16, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/16/teachers-gender-diversity-training/
“The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has called for compulsory ‘gender diversity’ training for sixth form college and further education (FE) teachers, warning staff who refer to ‘non-binary’ persons using ‘incorrect’ pronouns could face legal action…”
Telegraph: Top UK University to Swap Portraits of Bearded White Scholars with Wall of Diversity (breitbart, Jul 16, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/16/telegraph-top-uk-university-swap-portraits-bearded-white-scholars-wall-diversity/
“The Daily Telegraph reports King’s College London, ranked one of the best universities in the world, is to remove statues and pictures of key figures involved in the establishment of the institutions that make up the college and replace them with more “diverse” images instead…”
Iraqi Interior Ministry Says Daesh Leader Baghdadi Likely Still Alive (sputniknews, Jul 16, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707161055593518-iraq-baghdadi-alive/
“Abu Ali Basri, the head of the intelligence and counterterrorism department of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, stated that Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Daesh terror group (outlawed in Russia), is likely to be alive and he is hiding nearly Syria’s Raqqa…”
The Khurds stated he is still alive.
http://amp.gulf-times.com/story/556900/IS-leader-Baghdadi-almost-certainly-alive-Kurdish-
Pakistan army: 4 soldiers drown in river after Indian attack (abcnews, Jul 16, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-army-soldiers-drown-river-indian-attack-48666196
“Pakistan’s army says four of its soldiers have drowned in a river in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir after their vehicle was hit by Indian gunfire and plunged into the river Neelum.
A military statement Sunday says the military vehicle was hit near Athmuqam by unprovoked Indian fire from across the Line of Control, the effective frontier between the two nuclear armed south Asian neighbors.
It says the body of one of the drowned soldiers has been found and the search is on for the remaining three…”
Can someone make whole Pakistan disappear?
India.
That is one of the most likely nuclear flash points, and if they start firing to the West they will probably fire to the East using the theory of use them or lose them in the return strike.
Egypt says 1 killed, 50 injured in clashes on Nile islands (abcnews, Jul 16, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-destroyed-15-arms-laden-suvs-libya-48666403
“Egyptian police on Sunday fired tear gas to disperse a rock-pelting crowd of residents on a River Nile island in Cairo, clashes that left one person dead and 50 others injured, according to authorities.
The Health Ministry said a resident was killed and said 19 others were wounded in the clashes on al-Waraq island on the northern fringes of the Egyptian capital. It did not say how the man was killed.
An Interior Ministry statement said a total of 31 — policemen as well as contractors who arrived with them on the island — were injured in the clashes. The injured policemen included two generals, it said.
Ten residents were arrested, it added.
Video clips posted on social media networks showed hundreds of angry islanders, mostly young men, at the man’s funeral, marching through farm fields while chanting “We will sacrifice the martyr with our soul and blood.”
The violence broke out when police attempted to evict residents staying or utilizing state land without permission, part of an ongoing, nationwide campaign launched by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to retake state property illegally controlled or run for profit by individuals or commercial enterprises…”
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Voters reject Quebec City-area Muslim cemetery project 19 to 16
ST-APOLLINAIRE — Residents of a town near Quebec City voted Sunday to reject a plan to establish the region’s first Muslim cemetery by a vote of 19 to 16.
Voters were deciding whether or not to allow a zoning change for the proposed site in St-Apollinaire, 35 kilometres southwest of Quebec City.
The plan for the cemetery was developed after January’s deadly mosque shooting, but the issue was sent to a referendum after enough people came forward to oppose the project.
St-Apollinaire Mayor Bernard Ouellet said he was disappointed by the result.
“My community in general, I think that above all, what led their choice was really fear and disinformation,” he told reporters. “I’m convinced of it.”
Opponents of the project said Muslims should be buried in Islamic sections of existing cemeteries.
But Quebec City Muslims said their community deserves the same rights as all other religious groups, which have their own burial grounds.
Ouellet says he doesn’t have a “Plan B” now that the initiative has been rejected.
“I don’t have another step in sight,” he said.
Because of a Quebec law permitting referendums on zoning matters, only 49 people who live and work around the proposed site were eligible to vote.
Thirty-six of 49 registered voters cast ballots. One was rejected.
Mohamed Kesri, the man mandated by the Quebec City mosque to lead the project, previously indicated he wouldn’t abandon the project even if the ‘no’ side won.
Quebec adopted a law in June allowing municipalities to forgo referendums on land projects in order to give more power to local authorities.
Kesri said Quebec City’s Muslim community was considering pressuring politicians to have the new legislation applied — if need be.
Quebec City’s Muslims have been looking for a cemetery for two decades, but made a renewed push after they completed the payment for the city’s main mosque, in 2011, Kesri said.
It was there last January that a gunman shot dead six men in the main prayer hall and injured 19 others. The bodies were sent overseas and to Montreal for burial.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/voters-reject-quebec-city-area-muslim-cemetery-project-19-to-16
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CBC – 19 voters quash Muslim-run cemetery in Saint-Apollinaire, Que.
Count shows 19 votes against, 16 votes in favour after petition forced referendum on rezoning
Residents of Saint-Apollinaire, Que., voted against a proposed Muslim-run cemetery in their town Sunday.
The referendum saw 36 people vote on whether a zoning change would be allowed so that a new cemetery could exist in a wooded area on the outskirts the town.
The final tally showed 19 votes were against the project, 16 votes in favour and one rejected ballot.
Only 49 people in the 6,400-person town, located 35 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, were able to vote in the referendum because they lived in the vicinity of the proposed site and had registered to vote.
Seventy people were eligible to register.
The citizen-led referendum was forced when 40 people signed a petition against the project in April.
Opponents went door-to-door
Opponents to the project went door-to-door gathering signatures in the spring to force a referendum on the zoning change.
One of those opponents was Sunny Létourneau, a member of a group called the association for alternatives.
She is in favour of non-denominational cemeteries, and says she is equally opposed to cemeteries designated for Catholics, which are common across the province.
“We need cemeteries that welcome everybody, no matter their religion, where they’re from, their skin colour, their culture. You have to think about that because in 20 years it’s going to be a problem,” she said.
Mayor in favour of cemetery
Saint-Apollinaire Mayor Bernard Ouellet was in favour of the project and said he believedhis town’s reputation would be tarnished if the “no” side won.
He said when the mosque’s leaders first came to him with the proposal he “didn’t think it would bother anyone.”
The project had been in the works since 2016 and was spearheaded by the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, the mosque which was the site of the shooting rampage in January, which killed six men.
The centre wanted to buy 60,000 square feet of land in a wooded area near the Harmonia funeral home for the cemetery, located on the outskirts of the town.
The centre was ready to invest $215,000 into their project, but the land in question has to be rezoned first.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/muslim-cemetery-referendum-saint-apollinaire-1.4207923
This needs to be translated[…]La semaine dernière, le principal défendeur du projet et secrétaire du Centre culturel islamique de Québec, Mohamed Kesri, avait exprimé le souhait que l’administration municipale ne tienne pas compte des résultats si ceux-ci étaient négatifs. «On ne peut pas céder pour une poignée. Ils ont le pouvoir de ne pas aller en référendum, donc si cela on peut le faire appliquer, pourquoi ne pas le faire?», avait-il déclaré à La Presse canadienne.
Dimanche, il retenait son indignation avec peine. «Je suis un peu déçu, c’est normal. Comment voulez-vous que 19 (personnes) viennent arrêter un projet pour plusieurs milliers de personnes. Ce n’est pas une consultation pour dire si on va ramasser les ordures le matin ou l’après-midi, quand même. C’est une demande importante. On ne peut pas se baser sur un refus de 19. C’est insensé. C’est incroyable.»
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201707/16/01-5116706-le-projet-de-cimetiere-musulman-a-saint-apollinaire-a-ete-rejete.php
Chancellor Angela Merkel rejects refugee limit for Germany in TV interview (DW, Jul 16, 2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/chancellor-angela-merkel-rejects-refugee-limit-for-germany-in-tv-interview/a-39714436
“The German chancellor has defied calls from her sister party to limit the number of refugees entering Germany. In a wide-ranging interview she defended the G20 summit in Hamburg and spending on infrastructure.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to place an upper limit on refugees that the country accepts, speaking in an annual interview broadcast on Sunday.
Distancing herself from the position of her conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Merkel, who leads the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said placing a limit on refugees was not the way forward.
“As far as an upper limit is concerned, my position is clear: I will not accept it,” she said, saying that numbers could be reduced by regulation and taking action to prevent the situations that cause people to flee one country for another.
That position places her in conflict with CSU leader Horst Seehofer who threatened not to enter into coalition without an annual upper limit for refugee numbers.
In the wide ranging interview Merkel said she hoped to work with NATO to resolve a widening gulf between Turkey and Germany…”
She is completely nuts.
( 19 min 19 )
Controversial Muslim school where child died and books say husbands can beat their wives is taken over by the Government (dailymail, Jul 16, 2017)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4700938/Muslim-school-child-died-taken-state.html
“A controversial Muslim school which has been monitored since a child died there and books condoning domestic violence and forced sex were found in its library is to be taken over by the state.
The Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham is to become an Academy and the Department of Education confirmed to the MailOnline that an interim board has been appointed to oversee that multiple problems identified in a damning Ofsted report are addressed.
The education watchdog issued a highly critical report earlier this year which listed bullying, weak teaching, a chaotic playground, pupils who were not ‘sufficiently’ safe and staff who did not know what to do in medical emergencies as being serious problems at the school and gave the school the lowest ranking possible.
Offensive books have also been found in the school library which state that a husband can beat his wife and insist on having sex with her.
The DoE said that the regional schools commissioner for the West Midlands is currently working with Birmingham council and the interim board to secure a new sponsor to run Al-Hijrah from September.
The school became State funded in 2001, it is one of Britain’s first Muslim schools to secure state funding.
But the 750 pupil school has courted controversy in recent months after a child died there and it mounted a legal challenge to a critical Ofsted report.
Mohammad Imaeel Ashraf, 9, collapsed at the school in March and died later in hospital. His death was reportedly linked to an allergic reaction to fish and chips.
An inquest into the death will be held later this summer.
The school, which has both female and male pupils but segregates the sexes for all lessons from the age of 5 to 16 had mounted a legal challenge to an earlier Ofsted report that said that its segregation policy was a breach of the Equality Act.
In the first case of its kind, the state-funded Islamic school challenged its own critical Ofsted report, which found separating the pupils left them ‘unprepared for life in modern Britain’.
It was argued in court that segregating pupils for religious reasons harms girls’ life chances and creates ‘an apartheid’ within schools which makes girls feel they are ‘different’ and inferior.
Ofsted said that Muslim faith schools which separate boys and girls are guilty of sex discrimination.
Appeal court judges have been asked to make a definitive ruling in the case.
If Ofsted wins, faith schools across the country that teach boys and girls separately will be inspected and may have to change their policy.
Amanda Spielman, chief inspector at education watchdog Ofsted told The Times that she found it ‘deeply frustrating’ when legal challenges were ‘used to delay things that in our view urgently need to happen.’
‘It is rare for schools to go to court to challenge a report but sometimes the stakes are high,’ she said.
‘I am deeply concerned about the idea that total segregation of children within a mixed school is acceptable,’ Spielman said.
Ms Spielman, who previously attended an all-girls school, said that she believed the case would set an important legal precedent.
Ofsted has spent more than £66,000 on legal fees in the case and Birmingham city council helped fund Al-Hijrah’s legal costs.
If Ofsted win the case faith schools across the country could be sued by parents if ?judges decide segregating pupils for religious reasons is illegal, lawyers have claimed.”
Arrest Warrant Issued in Montreal for Hate-Preaching Imam
MONTREAL – A Quebec judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of Palestinian-Jordanian Imam Sheikh Muhammad ibn Musa Al Nasr following a B’nai Brith complaint. During a sermon, Al Nasr called Jews “the worst of mankind” and expressed his hope that Muslims would slaughter them on Judgment Day.
According to Sergeant Detective Stéphane Roch of the Hate Crimes Unit of the Montreal Police Service, Al Nasr is charged with wilful promotion of hatred contrary to section 319(2) of the Criminal Code.
The charge stems from a sermon made by Al Nasr in December of 2016 at the Dar al-Arkam Mosque in Montreal, which prompted a B’nai Brith Canada petition for more stringent enforcement of Canada’s hate crime laws.
“Today, the Jewish community of Montreal can sleep safer, knowing that there is a price to pay for inciting violence against our community,” said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada. “B’nai Brith deeply appreciates the diligent work of the newly-formed Hate Crimes Unit of the Montreal Police Service and Quebec prosecutors on this file.
“This incident and others like it demonstrate that antisemitism, especially in the guise of religion, remains a serious problem in Canada today. We hope that these charges will deter future threats and assaults on our community. At the same time, we call on the Attorney-General to demand that Jordan, or whichever country is currently hosting Al Nasr, extradite him to Canada in order to face justice.”
Almost five months since the antisemitic sermon garnered international attention, and despite condemnation from some Muslim groups, the Dar al-Arkam Mosque has still yet to apologize for the hateful speech delivered within its confines. In fact, the original Arabic version of the sermon remains posted to the mosque’s YouTube channel, along with dozens of other addresses delivered by Al Nasr. Attempts by B’nai Brith to contact the Dar al-Arkam Mosque received no response.
The warrant for Al Nasr’s arrest comes on the heels of an investigation into a rapper known as Madd Cold, who is being investigated by the Hate Crimes Unit of the Montreal Police Service for inciting violence against the Jewish community following a complaint by B’nai Brith.
http://www.bnaibrith.ca/arrest_warrant_issued_in_montreal_for_hate_preaching_imam